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Working Group Bulletin
Term 6 Lead Working Group Stewards + Secretary Appointment
- Meta-Governance – @netto.eth
- Ecosystem – @slobo.eth
- Public Goods – @simona_pop
- DAO Secretary - @limes
The responsibilities of the Lead Stewards & Secretary are set out in Rule 9.8 and Rule 9.9 of the Working Group Rules.
Calendar
Refer to the official ENS DAO Calendar for meeting links and times. Any other sources are not guaranteed to be accurate. Access the ENS Calendar here.
Proposals
ENS DAO Collective Funding Snapshot (Term 6)
All three Working Group budget proposals are passing with strong support in the current funding window:
- Meta-Gov: 379K USDC — 91.8% approval
- Ecosystem: 470K USDC — 100% approval
- Public Goods: 110K USDC + 15 ETH — 99.5% approval
More information → Proposal Bulletin
Temperature Checks
Structural Reset Proposed for ENS Working Groups
A temp check proposes a structural reset of ENS Working Groups, citing talent sprawl and governance drift toward inexperienced or misaligned actors. Current discussion infers placing Working Groups on hiatus and exploring a more sustainable model, potentially via a professional management company for day-to-day operations.
Review → Wind Down ENS Working Groups
Creation of on.eth for Cross-Chain Registry
A new proposal seeks to register on.eth as the base for a Chain Resolver, enabling trustless, on-chain mapping of blockchain names (e.g. optimism.on.eth). It replaces off-chain lists, supports ERC-7930/7828 standards, and strengthens ENS as Web3 infrastructure.
Review → Registration of on.eth
DAO-Wide Headlines
ENS Q3 2025 Revenue Report
ENS reported $7.18M in total revenue for Q3 2025 — up from $6.28M YoY. The quarter saw $4.5M in registrations, $1.63M in premium sales, and $1.04M in DeFi returns, bringing total annual revenue to $22.1M. August was the strongest month, driven by premium renewals.
View the Report → ENS Revenue Report
ENS Labs Q3 2025 Progress Report
ENS Labs delivered major progress on ENSv2, completing 80% of core contracts and launching the L2 Primary Name App across major rollups. With 1.6M+ active names and new ecosystem integrations, Q4 will focus on audits, migration prep, and DevConnect demos.
View the Report → Q3 Progress Report
ENS DAO Q3 2025 Spending Report
Total Q3 spend: $627K across all working groups.
- Ecosystem WG: $112,893 USDC + 3 ETH for grants, hackathon sponsorships (ETH Accra, ETH Rome), ENS Cannes event, and Devconnect prep.
- Meta-Gov WG: $207K USDC for steward pay, ops, and a $60K grant to LighthouseGov.
- Public Goods WG: $207,678 USDC + 10 ETH funding Vyper, Argot, ICANN advocacy, and builder grants.
- ENS token distributions: 900 ENS (Ecosystem) and 21,637 ENS (Meta-Gov) via Hedgey vesting.
Read the report → ENS Working Group Spending Summaries
Improvement Proposals
ENSIP-24 Introduces Flexible Data Resolution for ENS
unruggable.eth announced ENSIP-24: Arbitrary Data Resolution, a new proposal aimed at expanding Ethereum Name Service capabilities. The proposal addresses limitations in current resolver profiles, enabling broader, more adaptable data storage for emerging blockchain applications.
View the Repository → ENSIP-24
Smart Contract Metadata
Enscribe proposes a new ENSIP to extend ENS for smart contracts with standardized text records + a metadata resolver profile. It enables source code, audits, docs, and licensing info to be linked onchain. Community feedback invited.
Read the ENSIP → Contract Metadata Standard and Text Records
Requests For Comment
Target Allocations for Endowment
kpk.eth are seeking input on the Endowment’s 60/40 ETH–stablecoin target, risk appetite, and rebalancing approach under the Investment Policy Statement. Current policy: bi-weekly 1,000 ETH tranches and 3+ years runway in stables (~$45M). Feedback will inform Meta-Gov discussions.
Review → Target Allocations for Endowment
Updates from ENS Labs
How ENS Is Approaching ICANN’s gTLD Expansion Program
ENS is preparing for ICANN’s rare 2026 gTLD expansion. ENS may apply for .ens as a protected .brand to strengthen security, prevent namespace misuse, and deepen ENS–DNS integration. The future naming layer of the internet is increasingly ENS-enabled.
Learn more → ENS Blog
Minding the Decentralized Gap
Early hacker culture and Ethereum share deep roots in cryptography, privacy, open source, and computing freedom. Alex Urbelis argues it’s time to bridge the divide: blockchain builders need hackers, and hackers need decentralized infrastructure to reclaim the internet’s values.
Read → ENS Blog
Namechain Is Moving to Surge
ENS is migrating Namechain to Nethermind’s Surge, a based rollup built on Taiko—supporting Ethereum-native sequencing, fast finality, and censorship resistance. A Stage-1 launch with a path to Stage-2.
Learn more → Moving Namechain to Nethermind’s Surge
OS Contributions
ENS + Filecoin + Safe: Decentralized Deploy Pipeline
At Depin Day, Simon (ses.eth), ENS DevRel, presented a pipeline combining ENS for naming, Filecoin Onchain Cloud for verifiable storage, and Safe for controlled updates. The result: a simple, secure way to deploy decentralized websites and apps that stay online even when Web2 doesn’t.
Celonames Launch (Namespace + ENS Labs)
Namespace and ENS Labs launched Celonames, a chain-wide identity system for Celo using ENS. Users can register .celo.eth subnames (from ~$1 to $400), pay in CELO/USDC/USDT/CUSD, set profiles, and manage records. L2 primary names supported after L2 Reverse Registrar deploys.
ENS Distribution Monitor Launch
Danch.eth introduced an automated Dune dashboard to track token distributions via Hedgey vesting. It evaluates programs against goals like governance participation, decentralization, and recipient incentives — with recommendations for unified rules, improved contracts, and better communication.
ENS Powers Devconnect Identity
All Devconnect attendees now get an onchain username via ENS: your own worldfair.eth subname. Customize it with addresses, avatar, and socials. Works across OP, Base, Arbitrum, Linea & Scroll. ENS is the identity layer for the Ethereum World’s Fair.
ERC-8004: Trustless Agents
ERC-8004 defines a standard for discovering onchain agents and establishing trust through verifiable reputation + validation. It includes native ENS integration and onchain metadata—contributed by Premm.eth—allowing agents to be resolved, identified, and trusted via ENS names.
Filecoin Pin Launch Demonstrates Decentralized Hosting with ENS + IPFS
Timothy T. unveiled Filecoin Pin, an alpha-stage tool combining ENS, IPFS, and Filecoin for fully decentralized web hosting. Following a $3M DNS hijack in May 2025, he showed how Filecoin Pin enables registrar-free, verified, distributed storage to prevent such exploits.
Read documentation → Filecoin Pin
Nouns DAO Proposal: Contract Naming Season — Passed & Queued
Nouns DAO has officially passed the Contract Naming Season proposal, approving a coordinated effort to name core smart contracts for greater clarity, safety, and developer experience. The proposal is now queued for execution.
Details → https://www.nouns.camp/proposals/893
ENS Contract Naming Season Launch
ENS, Enscribe, and partners have launched Contract Naming Season (Nov 2025–Apr 2026) to encourage naming smart contracts with ENS for safer, human-readable interactions. A 10,000 ENS reward pool supports adoption across apps, DAOs, protocols, and L2s.
Start naming → ENScribe App
KAMIKO: Open-Source ENS Marketplace Stack
KAMIKO is a new open-source stack for launching ENS marketplaces using Seaport, built from learnings from ensvision. A testnet demo is live, with plans for MIT-licensed release, OpenSea aggregation, and ENS L2 support.
Feedback invited → Testnet Kamiko
Gasless USDC Transfers to ENS on Base
A new x402-powered flow enables gasless USDC transfers on Base to ENS names, Basenames, and Farcaster usernames—no ETH balance required. This improves onboarding and payments for ENS users by removing network fee friction and making stablecoin transfers more accessible.
Your ENS Name, Everywhere
Sharedot prompts new users to pick an ENS name from their wallet, turning thecap.eth and others into universal usernames. Apps adopting ENS = fewer passwords, fewer accounts, more ownership.
A Registrar UX Upgrades to include ENS Names
nicnames.com integrates ENS name registration next to DNS TLDs, enabling cross-domain search, wallet/email auth, and crypto/fiat payments. A smoother path for users moving from DNS to .eth identities.
Trustless systems and .eth identity
Vitalik Buterin signed the Trustless Manifesto, outlining principles such as no indispensable intermediaries and credible neutrality. ENS supports these goals by providing self-custodied, censorship-resistant naming. Read the manifesto: trustlessness.eth.limo
Filecoin Pin + ENS Static Site Demo
FIL Builders released a demo showing how ENS domains can point to Filecoin-pinned static websites. Each site update uploads content via GitHub Actions and automatically rewrites the ENS record to the latest IPFS CID, enabling permanent, decentralized site publishing.
Demo Site Repo → Filecoin Pinning
Superfluid: ENS Naming for SUP Reserves
Superfluid enabled human-readable ENS names for SUP reserve contracts, removing the need to copy long addresses from Etherscan. Reserve contracts can now be accessed via *.reserve.superfluid.eth, improving UX and discoverability.
Filecoin Onchain Cloud x ENS
Filecoin launched Onchain Cloud: verifiable, content-addressed compute + storage with proofs, billing, and retrieval—all onchain. ENS is an early integrator, using these primitives to anchor naming, metadata, and resolver ops to auditable, censorship-resistant infra.
Memboard Legitimacy Score Powered by ENS
Memboard, built on Memory Protocol lets you enter a wallet or ENS name to generate a legitimacy score built from your onchain + social activity. ENS makes identity lookup seamless, turning any .eth into a portable reputation anchor across apps.
Inline IPFS Contenthash Experiment
A community experiment showed how an ENS name can serve a fully inlined IPFS page using CIDv1.Raw—demonstrating lightweight, “no-gateway” content delivery. The thread also surfaced new IPFS size-limit guidance, with eth.limo confirming plans to support raw/inlined contenthash per updated specs.
Protect Your Brand with .eth
Aerodrome’s .finance + .box domains were compromised. Their ENS-based mirrors (aero.drome.eth.limo / .link ) remain safe, and contracts are unaffected. A reminder why critical infra should anchor to ENS: protect your brand with a secure, decentralized .eth.
Meta-Governance
The Meta-Governance Working Group provides governance oversight and support for working group operations through DAO tooling and governance initiatives.
Term 6 Meta-Governance Stewards:
Meeting Minutes:
- Minutes for Weekly Meta-Governance Meeting — November 4
- Minutes for Weekly Meta-Governance Meeting — October 11
ENS Endowment: October 2025 Financial Report
October saw broad crypto de-risking: BTC –13.5%, ETH –23.8%, with liquidations driving volatility. ENS fell 27.7% but volume rose to 12.78M ENS. Endowment AUM $133.4M (≈68% ETH / 32% stables), $367K yield, –$7.26M MTM on ETH decline.
Review → Endowment Report
ENS Financial Report — October 2025
ENS reports $1.8M revenue, $0.7M cash inflow, and $1.3M normalized cash burn, with 143 months runway. Endowment down $6.4M from ETH mark-to-market, with $131.9M assets split across ETH and stablecoins. Treasury reserves total $187M.
Read the report → Protocol Economics
NounsDAO Shares DUNA Transition Insights with ENS DAO
NounsDAO held a knowledge-sharing session with ENS DAO, detailing its move from a Cayman foundation to the DUNA model. The discussion covered lessons in transparency, legal structure, and community governance to help ENS DAO evaluate similar frameworks.
ENS Distribution Monitor — Key Insights
The Distribution Monitor, prepared by Danch.eth, tracks how effectively ENS allocates tokens. Since launch, ~88k votes added per proposal (6.5%) and 13 new voters joined with 48k voting power. Findings suggest strong distribution quality, but recommend vesting formats and updated allocation ratios to boost participation.
Review → ENS Distribution Monitor
Ecosystem
The Ecosystem Working Group strengthens the ENS Protocol by facilitating developer relations, identifying and funding high-potential projects that enhance ENS, and supporting ENS-aligned initiatives.
Term 6 Ecosystem Stewards:
Meeting Minutes:
- Minutes for Weekly Ecosystem Meeting — November 6
- Minutes for Weekly Ecosystem Meeting — November 11
ENS Ecosystem Launches $50K Hackathon Expansion Pilot
Starting Nov 1, 2025, the ENS Ecosystem Working Group is piloting a $50K Hackathon Expansion Program to boost global ENS presence. It funds in-person events (50+ hackers) with ENS Technical Specialists, travel grants, and up to $10K sponsorships to grow the builder network.
Read full announcement → Forum
Agentic Trust Layer
Agentic Trust Layer integrates ENS/DNS agent naming with ERC-8004 identity NFTs for readable, onchain agent accounts. A demo shows agent creation as ENS subnames, with SDKs and subgraph support. Uses ENS subname verification (ENSIP-25).
Learn more → agentictrust.io
ENS Park — Domain Parking for ENS Names
ENS Park lets holders turn “naked” ENS domains into informational parked pages showing OpenSea prices, sale status, and contact links, with avatar/banner support. Ideal for listing domains or marking them reserved.
Demo → enspark.xyz
ENSIP-25 Update
ENSIP-25 introduces a way to verify ENS names and subnames in the ERC-8004 agent identity standard, which previously lacked confirmation that an agent actually controlled the ENS name referenced in metadata. ENSIP-25 leverages ERC-7930 for interoperable addressing.
PR → ENSIP-25: AI Agent Registry ENS Name Verification
Namespace: Public Avatar Service
Namespace launched a Public Avatar Service for ENS names and subnames, supporting avatars, banners, Smart Accounts, and dynamic URLs. Updates are cacheless, available on Mainnet & Sepolia, with ownership proven via SIWE to get an HTTP avatar URL.
Try it → Public Avatar Service
ZK Email Q2 Update
The ZK Email team completed their Basic Scope: ZK email + social verification for ENS names, ZK-verified identity records in a custom resolver, and SDK demos live on Sepolia. This brings privacy-preserving email/social proofs directly into ENS ahead of Namechain.
Review → Q2 Update
YodlPay — ENS-Enabled QR Payments
YodlPay integrates local Argentine QR payments with a wallet that lets users top up and pay in stablecoins at terminals. Available on Play Store, with custom ENS themes via QR scan. QR payments are 5–10% cheaper than cards.
Cross-Chain Naming Service (CCNS)
CCNS links Walrus-deployed sites (decentralized storage on Sui) to ENS domains using custom resolvers and a Chrome extension. It won awards at ETH Global New Delhi and expands ENS beyond IPFS/Arweave. An ENSIP/PR will be raised to support Walrus integration.
Omnipin - Decentralized Eebsite Deployment Toolkit
Omnipin is a decentralized site-deployment toolkit that lets you host websites on ENS with multi-provider IPFS replication and onchain-verified Filecoin storage. It also adds a restricted ENS role for safe, secure record updates—keeping your .eth site live even when Web2 fails.
Public Goods
The Public Goods Working Group supports the Ethereum ecosystem by identifying and funding open-source development.
Term 6 Public Goods Stewards:
Meeting Minutes
- Minutes for Weekly Public Goods Meeting — November 6
- Minutes for Weekly Public Goods Meeting — November 13
ICANN84 Dublin: ENS Engagement Summary
Consulting policy advisor Emily Murray reports on ICANN84: next new gTLD round targeting April 2026, ongoing work on DNS abuse and RDRS, and limited but growing Web3/DNS attention. ENS/Public Goods will keep contributing via comments and RIDE work.
Read the summary → Key Takeaways from ICANN84
Multisigned: Credibly Neutral Passkey Infrastructure
Multisigned is an open-source, privacy-first passkey wallet for Ethereum with client-side encryption to avoid vendor lock-in. It aims to blend safety, UX, and neutrality for trustless login and key management. ENS Public Goods Working Group endorsed the project, and a 1–2 ETH research grant was approved.
Learn more → Multisigned
Note: Posts older than 4 weeks are archival—browse cautiously, as links may be outdated or compromised.
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